Get past the Sun’s hysterical spin and this is just sloppy-minded rambling, like Trump with grammar. twitter.com/simonjhix/stat…
And note the Sun’s desperation. “90% done” they say, but what Davis says is he could write down a summary of 80-90% of where he thinks it will end up.
And – though the article is unclear – he appears to set the end of the year as the deadline for the withdrawal agreement. Well, sorta. June, really, if you want anything useful negotiated on the next stage.
Oh, and saying that he was taken by surprise by how hard Northern Ireland was is *the* perfect summary of his and his colleagues’ wilful ignorance on the topic. They were told. They have no right to be surprised.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 10 April 2018. View the original thread.